Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0The Cotswolds National Landscape begins 1.4 mi from the town’s edge. Footpaths add up to 54 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Pershore add up to 2.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Pershore grades B for the outdoors: #6 of 22 in Worcestershire. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Pershore, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
The 60 UK towns and cities of 7,800 to 8,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Against towns its size, Pershore stands out most for park space per resident: only 18 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 38 of the others do better.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upton Dorset | A+ | 9.1 | 84% | 4.7 | 18% |
| 2 | Hawkinge Kent | A+ | 2.6 | 100% | 3.2 | 74% |
| 3 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | A+ | 5.2 | 93% | 8.2 | 29% |
| 4 | Pool and Illogan Cornwall | A+ | 3.7 | 81% | 4 | 5% |
| 5 | Ecclesfield and Grenoside South Yorkshire | A+ | 5.1 | 94% | 5.2 | 2% |
| 6 | Stakeford Northumberland | A+ | 10 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 7 | Bargod Gwent | A | 13.6 | 100% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 8 | Wallingford Oxfordshire | A | 3.1 | 85% | 3.7 | 61% |
| 9 | Dursley Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 90% | 7.2 | 52% |
| 10 | Grove Oxfordshire | A | 2.2 | 92% | 4.7 | 27% |
| 11 | Brecon Powys | A | 3.2 | 86% | 3.2 | 61% |
| 12 | East Cowes Isle of Wight | A | 1.4 | 96% | 3 | 8% |
| 13 | Ledbury Herefordshire | A | 3.3 | 89% | 3.1 | 34% |
| 14 | Penistone South Yorkshire | A | 2.6 | 97% | 3.9 | 9% |
| 15 | Bearsted Kent | A | 5.5 | 76% | 3.5 | 39% |
| 16 | Stonehouse Gloucestershire | A | 1.8 | 94% | 4.6 | 36% |
| 17 | Bursledon Hampshire | A | 2.6 | 90% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Richmond North Yorkshire | A | 2.4 | 96% | 3.9 | 7% |
| 19 | Maryport Cumbria | A− | 1.4 | 100% | 2.4 | 5% |
| 20 | Norton Canes Staffordshire | A− | 13.3 | 97% | 1.9 | 10% |
| 21 | Dinas Powis South Glamorgan | A− | 3 | 73% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 22 | London Colney Hertfordshire | A− | 3.7 | 96% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 23 | City of London London | A− | 2 | 100% | 11 | 0% |
| 24 | Pembroke Dyfed | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 1 | 31% |
| 25 | Coppull Lancashire | B+ | 4.6 | 85% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 26 | Runwell Essex | B+ | 5.1 | 92% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 27 | Pershore Worcestershire | B | 2.7 | 76% | 3.2 | 7% |
| 28 | Edenbridge Kent | B | 2.6 | 64% | 3 | 42% |
| 29 | Abergele Clwyd | B | 2.9 | 78% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | B | 1.1 | 86% | 4.2 | 2% |
| 31 | Alnwick Northumberland | B− | 2.2 | 67% | 3.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Twyford Berkshire | B− | 2.4 | 86% | 2.1 | 5% |
| 33 | Meltham West Yorkshire | B− | 1 | 63% | 5.3 | 27% |
| 34 | Denbigh Clwyd | B− | 1.3 | 96% | 2.3 | 5% |
| 35 | Buntingford Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 95% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 36 | Fakenham Norfolk | C+ | 5.2 | 81% | 2 | 0% |
| 37 | Ystalyfera West Glamorgan | C+ | 2.6 | 84% | 0.8 | 15% |
| 38 | Bewdley Worcestershire | C+ | 1.7 | 88% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 39 | Crediton Devon | C+ | 2.4 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | C+ | 0.5 | 66% | 4 | 0% |
| 41 | Ammanford Dyfed | C+ | 2.8 | 70% | 1.5 | 9% |
| 42 | Silsden West Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 67% | 3.5 | 1% |
| 43 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | C | 1.6 | 58% | 2.4 | 16% |
| 44 | Southam Warwickshire | C | 2.3 | 86% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 45 | Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire | C | 2.1 | 38% | 2.3 | 2% |
| 46 | Hedon East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 0.9 | 74% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 47 | Sherburn in Elmet North Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 93% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 48 | Glastonbury Somerset | C− | 2 | 69% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 49 | Llanharan and Brynna Mid Glamorgan | C− | 1.7 | 97% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 50 | Hilton Derbyshire | C− | 1.1 | 89% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 51 | Radlett Hertfordshire | C− | 2.1 | 60% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 52 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 65% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 53 | East Leake Nottinghamshire | C− | 2.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 54 | Penkridge Staffordshire | C− | 0.8 | 70% | 2.1 | 7% |
| 55 | Launceston Cornwall | C− | 2.1 | 66% | 0.9 | 1% |
| 56 | Highworth Wiltshire | C− | 0.4 | 59% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 57 | Swaffham Norfolk | D | 1 | 68% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 58 | Ashford Common Surrey | D | 0.8 | 62% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Coxheath Kent | D | 1.2 | 48% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 60 | Clydach West Glamorgan | D | 1.7 | 68% | 0.8 | 0% |
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Pershore’s built-up area.
The biggest is Abbey Park, 9.2 ha (23 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
About 2,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 11 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 746 residents.
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
7% of the land within 5 km of Pershore is National Park or National Landscape, more than 69% of UK towns.
54 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Pershore and the kilometre around it, 3.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Close to home, the Pershore Bridges Circular Walk has 7 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 3 regional routes pass through, including the Wychavon Way, Shakespeare's Avon Way and Millennium Way (Warks).
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
Historic England’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Pershore’s named parks.
9.2 ha. 6 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint Edburgha (Grade I).
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic England, National Heritage List for England.
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 42 | 41 | 51 | 57 | 54 | 58 | 61 | 52 | 68 | 65 | 62 |
March is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 68 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Pershore →
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Plus 1 viewpoint more.
Plus 3 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pershore | B | 2.7 | 76% | 7% |
| Drakes Broughton 1.8 mi | C− | 1.0 | 86% | 0% |
| Eckington 3.1 mi | B | 4.1 | 72% | 23% |
| Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey) 5.8 mi | C+ | 0.9 | 100% | 0% |
| Bredon 5.9 mi | C | 2.1 | 66% | 25% |
| Kempsey 6.0 mi | D | 0.9 | 40% | 0% |
| Evesham 6.2 mi | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 4% |
Pershore grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table.
Abbey Park, 9.2 ha (23 acres), with 1.4 km of path. Smith's Meadow (0.6 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
The nearest protected landscape is the Cotswolds National Landscape, 1.4 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 2,041 km² and was designated in 1966.
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wychavon Way, Shakespeare's Avon Way and Pershore Bridges Circular Walk.
76% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
For paths, yes: 3.2 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 65% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 64% (2.7 ha per 1,000 residents).
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Pershore’s overall grade.
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